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1895–96 Forfarshire Cup 2nd Round, Arbroath Wanderers 2–1 Montrose (result overturned), Arbroath Herald, 21 November 1895. The [club was formed in November 1891 by individuals who thought Arbroath could use a second senior club, [3] and, without being able to secure a home ground for its first season, lived up to its name by playing every match away from home. [4]
The Forfarshire Cup is a football competition in Scotland competed for by teams in the Forfarshire Football Association from Angus, Dundee and Perth. [1] The name of the competition is often baffling to some, as "Forfarshire" is an archaic and anglicised name for Angus which became official in the late 19th century around the time of Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 which restructured and ...
Arbroath has a rugby union club, Arbroath RFC, and several bowls clubs, with former World, British and current Commonwealth Games singles champion Darren Burnett a native of Arbroath. [159] Arbroath has a successful cricket club. It won the CSL Eastern Premiership in 2013 and the Scottish Cup in 2015. [160] Arbroath is a popular location for ...
It twice more won through the Qualifying Cup to play in the first round of the Scottish Cup. In the 1924–25 Scottish Cup the club lost at Kilmarnock; [13] in the 1926–27 Scottish Cup it lost 7–0 at home to Dundee United. [14] It entered the Forfarshire Cup from 1925–26 to 1928–29 but never won a tie. [15]
The club's first match was a 3–1 defeat at Arbroath in September 1894, but considered a promising start. [5] It made its competitive debut in the Forfarshire Cup the following month, losing 4–3 at home to Arbroath Wanderers at West Craigie Park, but an early indication of concern was a crowd numbering merely 50. [6]
The club's final match was a 4–0 defeat to Brechin City in the Forfarshire Cup on 3 January 1921, [6] and two months later the club gave up the hopeless struggle, donating the £10 balance in its account equally between Brechin City and Montrose. [7] The club was, in effect, replaced in 1922 by Arbroath Athletic, which was similarly unsuccessful.
Reserve League Cup 2003, Combined Reserve League 1964, Northern League 1891–92, Forfarshire County League (joint) 1908–09, Dewar Shield 1937–38 Arbroath were the first winners of the Forfarshire Cup in 1883 and have won the trophy 17 times since then.
The original Strathmore Athletic side was the second XI of Dundee side Strathmore, which was active under that name in the 1880s. [1] The senior Strathmore Athletic was founded as Strathmore Juniors in 1889 - confusingly, also the name of a side from Arbroath that had been active over the previous years - and changed its name to Strathmore Athletic in August 1891. [2]